Literacy Books

Why a person like Sylvia Plath, who had so much going for her, should have committed suicide is an intriguing question that might never be solved. The human mind is still a largely unexplored frontier. She was known to suffer from bi-polar problems and...

In the twenty-first century, interculturality has become an omnipresent term. We passed the understanding of cultures merely existing next to each other, in order to adopt a more open perspective of cultures influencing and altering each other...

John Barth's Chimera re-mythologizes mythology and re-orients it into the subversive discourse of postmodernism. The subversion of mythology and language are read in this book according to Paul de Man's deconstruction. The deconstruction of Jacques ...

This brief book focuses on the Gothic elements that help to shape and define literature of the American South and on how these elements are incorporated into Southern literature through overt use of the grotesque. After exploring the foundations of what...

Kazuo Ishiguro's book The Remains of the Day (1984) and its film adaptation's story is about a respectful British butler who travels across Britain in 1956. This journey is his first expedition in England. While he fights with his feelings and affections...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Orson Welles's Citizen Kane have been renowned for capturing the contradictory features of the American dream through their authentic and fascinating stories of two legendary fictitious American citizens...

Cultural hybrids like Kim often have trouble with identifying himself with either the blood or the culture. Located in the colonial context, Kipling is often defined as a patriot who glorifies the British Empire in the way he represents Indian cultures...

Why is Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra so much neglected compared to Romeo and Juliet? If one looks at the plot, one can find an abundance of similarities, among which the most important is the climax of both dramas, i.e. the suicides the main...

When Latin-American drama professor Frank Dauster brought Mexican poet and playwright Xavier Villaurrutia (1903-1950) to the attention of the English-reading public in 1971, more than two decades had passed since Villaurrutia's death. Known to a...

Every student has the right to learn how to read. But learning how to read isn't enough. Students must also want to read. Students deserve a literacy-rich environment in which reading is championed by all leaders serving in their school--whether in...

COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 15.1 (Fall 2020) | The journal understands "community literacy" as the domain for literacy work that exists outside of mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult education, early...

COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 14.2 (Spring 2020) | The journal understands "community literacy" as the domain for literacy work that exists outside of mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult education,...

A manual for teaching Young Adult Literature, this textbook presents perspectives and methods on how to organize and teach literature in engaging and inclusive ways that meet specific educational and programmatic goals. Each chapter is written by an...

An essential text on discourse theory and analytic methods, this book demonstrates the possibilities of using discourse analysis to better understand language, literacy, culture, and teaching.

This volume examines how oral and written language function in school learning , and how oral texts can be successfully inter-connected to the written texts that are used on a daily basis in schools. Rather than argue for the prominence of one over the...

Linguistic Diversity and Teaching raises questions and provides a context for reflection regarding the complex issues surrounding new English learners in the schools. These issues exist within a highly charged political climate and involve not only...

Is your poor English holding you back?Bad English is like bad breath—when people notice it, they’re too polite to tell you about it. In Break the Language Barrier!, I’m not polite. In plain language, I tell you what’s wrong and...

Germany's first democracy, the Weimar Republic, affected every aspect of life, particularly for women, who were granted such rights as the right to vote and equal pay for equal work. These rapid advancements combined with a strong economy and an...

The book provides an overview of major works in 20th century Glasgow literature presenting fundamental changes in the way of working-class people saw and see themselves. The works analysed, written exclusively by writers from within the working classes,...

Functioning Fantasies explores the functionality as well as the ideological underpinnings of C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Perhaps more than any other genre of literature, fantasy texts attempt to...

This book follows the interaction of "double-voicing" and "double-consciousness" in Native American literary history. It begins with the surviving records from the time of colonial contact and ends with works by Leslie Marmon Silko and Thomas King, two...

When I read Heart of Darkness for the first time, I had never though that I would ever write a book about it. I think I am not the only one who found Heart of Darkness indigestible and incomprehensible for the first time. Joseph Conrad is a kind of...

Roots is more than the saga of Alex Haley's family, by means of his novel the author has managed to put slavery in a new light as well. With the help of his protagonist, Kunta Kinte, he was able to highlight such aspects of slavery which were not...

This work examines the reconstruction of cultural and historical myths by selected postcolonial writers of fiction from Indigenous Australia and South Africa. It explores summarily how these myths were used to define the colonial space, define the...

Anhand der Handschriften und Drucke zwischen 1350 und 1621 untersucht die Autorin die konzeptionelle Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit der Taulerpredigten. Die konzeptionelle Schriftlichkeit der späten Überlieferungen und ihre Bezugnahmen auf das...

In modern American society, the child who grows up without learning to read does not have a prayer when it comes to achieving true success in life. Unfortunately, this is the case for several million of our nation's children. According to an April 2017...

Ce livre de 280 pages - entièrement écrit en occitan - retrace l'histoire de la littérature occitane durant tout le Moyen Âge (Edat mejana) et plus spécialement dans sa période faste, les siècles XII, XIII. Paul FABRE a été le vice-président de...

This antiquarian volume contains Peter Mark Roget's famous lexicographic work, "Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases" - subtitled "Classified and Arranged So As To Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary...

Grazie alle conoscenze afferenti alla mitologia, alla storia greca e ai vari personaggi dell'Iliade, i ragazzi hanno potuto ricreare i momenti principali del poema omerico in modo originale e personale, secondo strategie diverse, tra le quali l'articolo...

With help from a global cast of scholars, Kumiko Murata explores the remodelling of the discipline of applied linguistics, which traditionally regarded Anglophone native-speaker English as the standard for English as a lingua franca (ELF).

The Review of Adult Learning and Literacy: Connecting Research Policy, and Practice, Volume 4 is the newest addition to a series of annual publications of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) that address major...

In this volume scholars from around the world focus on how a Bourdieusian stance can enable a powerful socicultural and cultural analysis of literacy education theory and practice and serve as an effective tool in analyzing relations of hierarchy and...

The acquisition and maintenance of literacy is of pressing interest and concern to educators and educational policy makers worldwide. What are the common themes, the common questions, and the unique circumstances and initiatives that spring from this...

British English Phonetic Transcription provides an accessible introduction to phonemic, phonetic and intonational transcription with a focus on British English. Featuring exercises, revision tasks and recordings to help students gain hands-on...

This book brings together authors actively involved in shaping the field of literacy studies, presenting a robust approach to the theoretical and empirical work which is currently pushing the boundaries of literacy research and also pointing to future...

Good Morning, Chanakya Sir! How we wish that this was true-that we could get the sharpest of minds to teach us how to deal with the myriad challenges life throws us!What are some of the principles and suggestions given by the most revered teacher and...

Definition of literacy in the context of special educationLiteracy is the set of skills that a person needs to understand and communicate with the world around them. It typically includes reading, writing, and mathematics.For students with special...

Colonialism is the conquest and control of other people's land and lives. Not limited to the incursion of various European powers into Asia, Africa or the Americas alone, it is a continuous, widespread feature of human history. Leela Gandhi remarks:...

Harold Pinter, a Nobel laureate in literature in 2005 was some what different in the melee of the well known dramatists of the contemporary period, his characters move around like real characters, feel pain, anguish and anger as we do in our day to day...

The 20th Century was witness to a rise in African American Drama as it introduced many prominent figures such as Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins and August Wilson. However, its distinctness lies in the flourishing of a female canon led by Alice Childress ...